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Washing the deceased, shrouding him, offering the funeral prayer over him, and burying him are communal obligations ..........
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His statement: “Washing the deceased, shrouding him, offering the funeral prayer over him, and burying him are communal obligations.”
These are four issues:
The first: his statement, “Washing the deceased.”
The evidence for this is as follows:
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The Prophet ﷺ said regarding the man whose neck was broken by his camel on the Day of Arafah: “Wash him with water and lote leaves.” (1) The basic principle concerning a command is that it denotes obligation. It is known that he did not intend for every individual Muslim to wash this deceased person; rather, the address is directed to Muslims generally, so if some of them undertake it, that suffices.
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The Prophet ﷺ said to the women who were washing his daughter: “Wash her three, five, or seven times, or more than that if you see fit.” (2) The basic principle concerning a command is that it denotes obligation.
These are two transmitted proofs.
As for the rational evidence: this is among the rights a Muslim has over his fellow Muslim. Indeed, among the greatest of these rights is that a person should present his brother before his Lord in the most complete state of purification.
The second: his statement, “Shrouding him.” Its evidence is the Prophet’s ﷺ statement: “Shroud him in